Antonyms for clover


Grammar : Noun
Spell : kloh-ver
Phonetic Transcription : ˈkloʊ vər


Definition of clover

Origin :
  • Old English clafre, clæfre "clover," from Proto-Germanic *klaibron (cf. Old Saxon kle, Middle Low German klever, Middle Dutch claver, Dutch klaver, Old High German kleo, German Klee "clover"), of uncertain origin.
  • Klein and Liberman write that it is probably from West Germanic *klaiwaz- "sticky pap" (see clay), and Liberman adds, "The sticky juice of clover was the base of the most popular sort of honey." First reference in English to the suposed luck of a four-leaf clover is from c.1500. To be in clover "live luxuriously" is 1710, "clover being extremely delicious and fattening to cattle" [Johnson].
  • As in prosperity : noun affluence, good fortune
  • As in riches : noun money and possessions
  • As in success : noun favorable outcome
  • As in wealth : noun money, resources
  • As in bed of roses : noun comfortable situation
  • As in easy street : noun financial security
  • As in good life : noun life of ease
  • As in life of Riley : noun easy life
  • As in prosperousness : noun prosperity
Example sentences :
  • The deep roots of the clover penetrated the soil, that no plow ever touched.
  • Extract from : « The Enclosures in England » by Harriett Bradley
  • The flat fields glowed with rich crops of grain, roots, and clover.
  • Extract from : « Harper's Young People, June 22, 1880 » by Various
  • They were irrigated, and had been sown and re-sown with timothy grass and clover.
  • Extract from : « The Night Riders » by Ridgwell Cullum
  • And he lies down on his back in a field of clover, and stares up at the sky.
  • Extract from : « The Great Hunger » by Johan Bojer
  • Hence his crop “rotation,” his succession of wheat to clover, of grass to both.
  • Extract from : « Little Masterpieces of Science: » by Various
  • The standard rotation of crops is tobacco, wheat, clover, tobacco.
  • Extract from : « The Negro Farmer » by Carl Kelsey
  • The next morning the bread and butter will have the flavor of clover.
  • Extract from : « Sandwiches » by Sarah Tyson Heston Rorer
  • Among those in common use are clover, rose and the nasturtium.
  • Extract from : « Sandwiches » by Sarah Tyson Heston Rorer
  • We must hurry, else the does will have left the leverets and gone to feed in the clover.
  • Extract from : « Creatures of the Night » by Alfred W. Rees
  • Look at yonder wheat: see that clover, and the meadow beyond it.
  • Extract from : « The O'Donoghue » by Charles James Lever

Synonyms for clover

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